From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 18 14:34:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8EA916A54C for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:34:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton@mps.ohio-state.edu) Received: from phyas1.mps.ohio-state.edu (phyas1.mps.ohio-state.edu [128.146.37.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9245243D46 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:34:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton@mps.ohio-state.edu) Received: from bilbo (adsl-67-36-51-166.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net [67.36.51.166]) by mps.ohio-state.edu (PMDF V6.2-1x9 #31224) with ESMTPA id <01M3RMRW4T0K8WYJ9V@mps.ohio-state.edu> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:33:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:34:01 -0400 From: Steven James Samuel Stapleton To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-id: <001301c692e4$40c997b0$5801a8c0@bilbo> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal Subject: Toshibal Sat. A105-4001 Review + Questions [RTL ALC861 Sound, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG issues] X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:34:52 -0000 I have this notebook, and it seems to work well, except for two luxury items which I can't get working... The wireless and sound, listed in the subject. I know the sound works in linux, and I know Intel made linux drivers for the chipset... However, after trying Linux, and not even going 24 hours without a tedious, poorly documented issue I had to fix in a critical system for me, I remember why I didn't care for Linux, and went back to BSD. Sound and Wireless aren't worth that annoyance. Now my notes on the machine for prospective BSD interested buyers... Specifications: Satellite A105-S4001 Intel® Core Solo Processor T1300 (1.66GHz); 512MB DDR2-533 RAM; 60GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive; SuperMulti Double Layer 8x DVD±RW Drive; 5-in-1 Bridge Media Adapter; Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Video Chipset; Realtek ALC861 Sound; 10/100 Network Adapter; Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG 15.4" Widescreen XGA TruBrite Display; Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (Service Pack 2) [not anymore...] ===== What works: ===== Intel® Core Solo Processor T1300 (1.66GHz); 512MB DDR2-533 RAM; 10/100 Network Adapter; 15.4" Widescreen XGA TruBrite Display; Touchpad; 4xUSB; No real surprises with these, though the XOrg was tricky to get working with the native res. If you have trouble with the native monitor res, look at my monitor configuration entry at the end of the mail. You'll need to turn on the moused in your rc.conf to get the touchpad to work. USB mice work fine, as well as USB drives. 60GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive; Yes, the hard drive controller works! SuperMulti Double Layer 8x DVD±RW Drive; At least reading CDs/CDRs, haven't tested anything else yet. Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Video Chipset; The i810 driver in XOrg works fine, as stated in the docs. However, the shared memory can be problematic when doing memory intensive tasks... ===== Not Tested: ===== 5-in-1 Bridge Media Adapter; 1x Firewire; I have any memory-card or firewire type devices. ===== Things that I can't get working so far: ===== Realtek ALC861 Sound; The default sound driver (snd_drv) in the handbook has no effect, the soundstat doesn't produce any loaded drivers. snd_ich also doesn't provide any results (not that I expected any) Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG The wi and iwi drivers do not function here, I saw another thread about them, but haven't had a chance to sift through it yet. It looked lite the main idea was that the patchsets for this card were still buggy? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton XOrg monitor config (This is taken from a googled post on a 15.4" widescreen for a slightly different Toshiba model), and selected other XOrg sections: Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "dri" Load "i810" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "GLcore" Load "record" Load "xtrap" Load "freetype" Load "type1" EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "ShadowFB" # [] #Option "DefaultRefresh" # [] #Option "ModeSetClearScreen" # [] Identifier "Card0" Driver "vesa" VendorName "Intel Corporation" BoardName "Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Toshiba" ModelName "SatelliteLCD" HorizSync 30.0 - 107.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 185.0 Option "DPMS" Modeline "1280x800" 159.74 1280 1296 1552 1664 800 800 815 835 EndSection